DALLAS — Dallas Police will start allowing the use of a controversial facial recognition technology for many misdemeanor offenses — a significant expansion of the policy that currently only allows detectives to use the technology in the most serious felony cases.

DPD said it used the technology 156 times in the year since it purchased it in 2024, leading to 25 arrests .

"It was vital and important to the arrests," Sergeant Brandon Griffin told the Community Police Oversight Board on Tuesday. "The facial recognition got [detectives] where they needed to go."

Detectives submit a photo of an unknown suspect — like an image from a surveillance camera — to the Clearview AI platform, which then compares the face to billions of photos it scraped from the internet, Griffin explained.

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